Re: [ProgSoc] Microsoft = Evil (and about as on-topic as the last umpteen messages)

[jedd <jedd@nospam.progsoc.uts.edu.au>]

On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:29, WzDD wrote:
 ] On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Dr. Love wrote:
 ] > Ethics is the key. Christ's life dictated that of social justice... Hence
 ] > my targetting of churches.
 ] 
 ] That's crazy-talk, based on the following incorrect assumptions:
 ] 
 ] 1) People who attend church have a more sharply-defined sense of ethics
 ] than normal people;

 'normal' people?  Perhaps you mean average.  A lot of people think
 they mean the same thing.

 What evidence is there to counter this crazy claim -- how would you
 prove to me, say, that average people have a more sharply-defined
 sense of ethics (sic) than church types?

 ] 2) The view of ethics held by the average chuch-goer will be more amenable
 ] than average to whatever personal view (which, since everyone's personal
 ] idea of ethics is different, may or may not have anything to do with
 ] anyone else's idea of "open source") that you hold;

 I think the theory is that Christ wasn't big on monopolies, and, as
 you can gather from even a cursory examination of the evidence,
 was kinda big on people working together and helping each other.

 ] 3) The average church-goer lives their life according to the ethics of
 ] Christ, and

 How else do you define Christian, other than someone who follows
 in the footsteps of Christ?

 ] Open source has the potential to bring benefit to many groups of people,
 ] not just the Christian ones. I don't think you should restrict your
 ] preaching to churches, and am in fact disturbed that you consider they
 ] would be more amenable to your views than the average atheist in the
 ] street.

 As I understand it, DrLove's got a kind of captive audience .. and,
 possibly, isn't in quite the same position to wander out and talk to
 the all the infidels just yet.

 Jedd.

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